Thieves Hacking Security Cameras?

The FBI is investigating fifteen store robberies in eleven states, committed via phone and internet. The perpetrators hack the store's security system so they can observe their victims. They then make customers take their clothes off and get the store to wire money. From the article, "A telephone caller making a bomb threat to a Hutchinson, Kan., grocery store kept more than 100 people hostage, demanding they disrobe and that the store wire money to his bank account. ... officials were investigating whether the caller was out of state and may have hacked into the store's security system. "If they can access the Internet, they can get to anything," Hutchinson Police Chief Dick Heitschmidt said. "Anyone in the whole world could have access, if that's what really happened.""

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Live dog-with-dog action

[adnonsense]

Found on Google here

(And yes, it is surprisingly SFW, at least the frames I've seen so far are)

Oh so true ... and there are other problems.

[twitter]

s a Technology specialist company that also does cameras, we find that 9 times out fo ten the default passwords are set for the administration access of the DVR and even the IP cameras.

So tell me how things look these days, if I want a multi camera system outside of Winblows. What good is configuration on top of XP?

Re:Voyeurism + Crank Calls = Profit

[Anonymous Coward]

Rules 1 and 2, Anonymous Coward motherfucker. /.: nothing to see here. Move on.